Coach praises batsmen but takes bowlers to task
Coach Gus Logie expressed overall satisfaction after his side?s narrow defeat to Ireland yesterday but conceded some players were still failing to learn from their mistakes.
And while he admitted it had been a ?disappointing? bowling performance, he said the failure of batsmen to build on a solid start was also cause for concern.
?I think at the moment I?m quite happy with the overall effort today,? said the Trinidadian.
?It augurs well for the future. I?m trusting again that the self-belief is there and that?s what we?ve got to be working with.
?This has to be another learning experience. You hope that players learn from their experience out in the middle but unfortunately some guys are taking a lot longer than others.
?The bowling was disappointing. But even so, 275 you know, we still felt that with the start we had we could have capitalised a little bit more, possibly got 300 runs.
?One of the things we saw in the opposition was one batsman (William Porterfield) get a hundred. We had a few guys get into the 50s and not carry on. We still have to rectify that, but all in all it was a much-improved batting performance from the last game we played.? (133 against Kenya).
As for the bowling, Logie added: ?Certainly the extras (31) mounted up.
?We have some young and inexperienced bowlers, we are having to ask some of them like (Malachi) Jones to carry the bowling along with Mukky?s (Mukuddem) and Sluggo?s (Leverock) experience.
?But (Kevin) Hurdle was very disappointing today ? he needs to look in the mirror.
?In a game like this, to have somebody like Lionel Cann having to bowl the end overs is not what you want. It was never in the game plan, and that?s something we need to look at.
?But it was a good effort from the players otherwise, they should take heart from this and hopefully in the rest of the tournament we?ll see them improving.
?Certainly we?d like to bottle the batting, put it up on the shelf and bring it out in the next game.?
That next match is against winless Canada tomorrow and Logie hinted there could be changes in his line-up.
?I think you have to look at the confidence level of some of the guys. Obviously the bowling department came in for a little bit of stick today. We?ll look at that and see who we have in reserve, who could replace some of those guys.?